Chapter Kicks Off Spring with Membership Mixer

The chapter kicked off the spring season with its membership appreciation event with 70 attendees. The May luncheon speaker was David Drake, technical director, Communications and Information Directorate, National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. NASIC is the Air Force and Department of Defense center of excellence for all-source air and space intelligence. It supports Air Force and joint operational, acquisition and policy-making customers at the national intelligence community level. The Communications and Information Directorate is responsible for procuring, developing, operating and maintaining leading edge communications and information multimedia and application systems for NASIC. It is comprised of 270 personnel controlling $150 million in hardware and software. As technical director, Drake serves as the senior advisor to the commander on all technical aspects of NASIC's information technology structure.